Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-24
CALF.
What that Thriving Town Wants, and
what we Hope it may Get.
lGalt Gazette.I


Below we enumelate few "wants" of
Gait and if she gets them il will be a good
thing all around:
Gait wants the Mokelumne river bridged
at New Hope ferry and thus secure direct
communication with the steamer landing
few miles below. The reason for this is
obvious. The reason the bridge has not
been built is also obvious.
Gait wants a bank. It is cheaper for
farmers to borrow money and pay their
bills as they go. Many have found out
the truth of this assertion when il was too
late to do them good.
Gait wants -four mill and fruit cannery.
It's all nonsense for farmers to pay six
dollars per barrel for flour made of wheat
they sold for a dollar and ten per hundred.
There is need of fruit cannery here to
| take care of the great quantity OF fruit
| that annually goes to waste i'll this vicinity
| for want of proper care. The fruit indus
| try is growing here.
| Gait wants larger town lots to sell. The
little 40-foot front concerns may do for
| business purposes, but for residences peo.
| pie must have room to store their wood, al
| least. Where land is SO plentiful it is
| amusing, especially to strangers, to see sc
many cute little vacant town lots holding
| down the town site. Why the suburbs o.
town is thickly settled and the heart of the
village has so few residences is easily I'M
| derstood.
Gait wants two daily mails with the out
side world. As it now stands it takes two
days-usually three-to send a letter Il
Sacramento and get reply "by return
mail" Sacramento is only one hour from
Gait by rail, yet from two to three days by
mail. The citizens of the town can have ;
change if they will
! Gait wants some protection against fire
| Should blaze get started, and the wind bt
| favorable, the town would COUP in smoke
in short time. A suitable organization, i
| nothing more that bucket brigade,
| should be maintained
Gait wants her citizens to talk less o
hard times Talk amounts to nothing
| Economy and industry will do more to re
move the evil than all the growing ant
fault-6nding.
| Gait wants to see a few artesian we'll
| flowing on the dry plain lands of the vicin
lty. With artesian water fortunes can b.
made from small fruit farms on land tina
brings wheat-growers in debt each year. |
| you think fruit makes too much work, tr,
alfalfa.
Gait wants the world to know that he
climate cannot be beat for healthfulnes
and salubrity; that we are in the " trad
| wind belt" and enjoy the sea breeze durini
the summer; that the majestic range o
the Sierras loom up to the east and serve a
a barrier against Kansas cyclones and Col
orado tornadoes: that the placid waters o
the Pacific kiss the shore ON the west. an'
that the two great interior cities of thi
great State-Sacramentoa and Stockton-ar
on either side of US. What better location
could be desired?
Gait wants people 10 come here who vii
invest money in permanent improvements
There is a good field here for money T.
beget money.
Gait wants the world to know that he
reputation for peace and quiet is abov
par In fact her local Justices have so littl
to do in the legal line that they have almos
forgotten the difference between an alb
and jack-screw.
Gait wants a public park. We think
the matter is properly presented before tn
railroad people, they will contribute tC
!, wards the expense of such a luxury. w
have been told that the railroad compan
is pecuniarly interested in the growth an
prosperity of Gait If such is the cas-,
that corporation should listen to what W
have to say, and then send man u
here to investigate the situation
, When Gait station was opened, we are tol
that the railroad people expected to see
town here of 1000 inhabitants in seve
years. Nearly twenty years have elapse
and scarcely 900 souls call Gait their hom
What is the matter?
Gait wants her boys to stay at HON
nights. We are sorry to say that some
the young boys OF this town are in til
habit of prowling around the streets {
night when they should be in bed. We
not censure them, however, but think thei
parents should take them to task about i
Gait wants a reading room, or some inst
tuition similar, where young men, and oil
ones, too, can spend an evening dow
town occasionally without feeling the NJ
cessity of haunting the saloons for want {
other places of welcome.